Lucas Ledwaba
After missing the bus ferrying people to listen to president Cyril Ramaphosa speak during the launch of the Khawuleza District Development Model in Limpopo this week – Ramadimetja Mabote hitched a lift from a passing police van for the 70 km journey.
She made it to the Shongoane sports stadium in Ga-Shongoane, about 50 km from the town of Lephalale in time for proceedings and the accompanying razzmatazz.
“I came to hear what he [Ramaphosa] says about jobs. I am not working. If he came here then it means maybe he has jobs for us,” said the 29 year-old.
Like many of Lephalale’s youth, Mabote is unemployed and relies on a state social grant for the upkeep of her three children.
A crowd of over 2 000 packed the mini sports ground in the rural village, on a swelteringly hot Tuesday afternoon to hear Ramaphosa speak, bussed in from
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